Gloria Grahame (November 28, 1923 – October 5, 1981) was an American actress. Grahame began her acting career in theatre, and in 1944 she made her first film for MGM. Despite a featured role in It's a Wonderful Life (1946), MGM did not believe she had the potential for major success, and sold her contract to RKO Studios. Often cast in film noir projects, Grahame received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Crossfire (1947), and she won this award for her work in The Bad and the Beautiful (1952). She achieved her highest profile with Sudden Fear (1952), Human Desire (1953),The Big Heat (1953), and Oklahoma! (1955), but her film career began to wane soon afterwards. She returned to work on the stage, but continued to appear in films and television productions, usually in supporting roles. Diagnosed with stomach cancer in 1980, Grahame refused to accept the diagnosis and travelled to England to work in a play. Her health rapidly failed and she returned to New York City, where she died in 1981.

Filmography

• 2025Akai Ito
• 1981Mr. Griffin and Me — Mara Emerson
• 1981The Nesting — Florinda Costello
• 1980A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square — Ma
• 1980Melvin and Howard — Mrs. Sisk
• 1980The Merry Wives of Windsor — Mistress Page
• 1979Chilly Scenes of Winter — Clara
• Tales of the Unexpected — Olivia
• 1978The Dancing Princesses — The Witch
• Seventh Avenue — Moll
• 1976Mansion of the Doomed — Katherine
• Rich Man, Poor Man — Sue Prescott
• 1974Mama's Dirty Girls — Mama Love
• 1974The Girl on the Late, Late Show — Carolyn Porter
• Kojak — Helen
• 1973Tarot — Natalie
• 1972The Loners — Annabelle
• 1971Black Noon — Bethia
• 1971Blood and Lace — Mrs. Deere
• 1971Chandler — Selma
• 1971Escape — Evelyn Harrison
• 1971The Todd Killings — Mrs. Roy
• Then Came Bronson — Charlene Braden
• The Name of the Game — Madame Noh
• Mannix — Mae Darling
• 1966Ride Beyond Vengeance — Bonnie Shelley
• Daniel Boone — Molly Hogan
• Burke's Law — Helen Dekker, Doris Landers
• The Fugitive — Dorina Pruitt
• The Outer Limits — Florida Patton
• Sam Benedict — Rita Bain
• The New Breed — Nurse Nora Springer
• Harrigan and Son
• 1959Odds Against Tomorrow — Helen
• 1957Ride Out for Revenge — Amy Porter
• 1956The Man Who Never Was — Lucy Sherwood
• 1955Not as a Stranger — Harriet Lang
• 1955Oklahoma! — Ado Annie Carnes
• 1955The Cobweb — Karen McIver
• 1954Human Desire — Vicki Buckley
• 1954Naked Alibi — Marianna
• 1954The Good Die Young — Denise Blaine
• General Electric Theater — Elena Carlisle
• 1953Man on a Tightrope — Zama Cernik
• 1953Prisoners of the Casbah — Princess Nadja
• 1953The Big Heat — Debby Marsh
• 1953The Glass Wall — Maggie Summers
• 1952Macao — Margie
• 1952Sudden Fear — Irene Neves
• 1952The Bad and the Beautiful — Rosemary Bartlow
• 1952The Greatest Show on Earth — Angel
• 1950In a Lonely Place — Laurel Gray
• 1949A Woman's Secret — Susan Caldwell / Estrellita
• 1949Roughshod — Mary Wells
• 1947Crossfire — Virginia "Ginny" Tremayne
• 1947It Happened in Brooklyn — Nurse
• 1947Merton of the Movies — Beulah Baxter
• 1947Song of the Thin Man — Fran Page
• 1946It's a Wonderful Life — Violet
• 1945Without Love — Flower Girl
• 1944Blonde Fever — Sally Murfin

Appearances as themselves (5)

• 2003'In a Lonely Place' Revisited — Self (archive footage)
• 1983Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• The Mike Douglas Show — Self
• 1954A Star Is Born World Premiere — Self
• The Colgate Comedy Hour — Self